Showing papers in "Physics Reports in 2007"

TL;DR: The aim of this work is to provide the readers with the know how for the application of recurrence plot based methods in their own field of research, and detail the analysis of data and indicate possible difficulties and pitfalls.

TL;DR: The major theme of the review is in what sense and how the graph structure of interactions can modify and enrich the picture of long term behavioral patterns emerging in evolutionary games.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main aspects of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in various transparent media such as air (gases), transparent solids and liquids are introduced and discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how current and proposed observations of neutron stars can lead to an understanding of the state of their interiors and the key unknowns: the typical neutron star radius and the neutron star maximum mass.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review article provides a pedagogical introduction to various classes of chiral string compactifications to four dimensions with D-branes and fluxes with the main concern being to provide all necessary technical tools to explicitly construct four-dimensional orientifold vacua, with the final aim to come as close as possible to the supersymmetric standard model.

TL;DR: The theoretical and observational studies of short-hard gamma-ray bursts (SHBs) are reviewed in this article, along with new theoretical results that are presented here for the first time.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the prompt bounce-shock mechanism is not the driver of supernova explosions, and that the delayed neutrino-heating mechanism can produce explosions without the aid of multi-dimensional processes only if the progenitor star has an ONeMg core inside a very dilute He-core, i.e., has a mass in the 8-10 M⊙ range.

TL;DR: In this paper, Chandra's 1 ″ angular resolution corresponds to linear resolution of less than a kiloparsec, which is smaller than some interesting linear scales in the intracluster plasma.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of information theoretic approaches for measuring causal influence in multivariate time series and to focus on diverse approaches to the entropy and mutual information estimation.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the meson σ and κ mesons exhibit a spectrum of (squared) masses which are proportional to the sum of orbital angular momentum and radial quantum numbers.

TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art in the field can be found in this paper, where the authors present a brief summary of the one- or multidimensional spherical or non-spherical explosion simulations available to date.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of nucleosynthesis that occurs in 32 stars of solar metallicity in the mass range 12 − 120 M ⊙, where the most recent set of solar abundances, opacities, mass loss rates, and current estimates of nuclear reaction rates are employed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the phenomenology of models with flat, compactified extra dimensions where all of the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk, known as Universal Extra Dimensions (UED).

TL;DR: This review presents some of the recent results on active polar gels and uses the hydrodynamic approach to study the spontaneous generation of flow in an active polar film and the formation of vortex defects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the full content of the uncertainty principle also includes its positive role as a condition ensuring that mutually exclusive experimental options can be reconciled if an appropriate trade-off is accepted.

TL;DR: A broad overview of the current status of proton stability in unified models of particle interactions is given which includes non-supersymmetric unification, SUSY and SUGRA unified models, unification based on extra dimensions, and string-M-theory models as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the current status of periodic dielectric nanostructures in photonics is presented, including both recent progress and well-established results, as well as the advantages and limitations of various theoretical and numerical approaches.

TL;DR: This work reviews the properties and applications of Gaussian states in quantum information with emphasis on the fundamental concepts, the calculation techniques and the effects of imperfections of the real-life experimental setups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the theoretical motivations and experimental status of searches for stable massive particles (SMPs) which could be sufficiently long-lived as to be directly detected at collider experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that strongly coupled plasmas, in which the electrical interaction energy between charged particles exceeds the average kinetic energy, reverse the traditional energy hierarchy underlying basic plasma concepts such as Debye screening and hydrodynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the description of the lowest energy nucleon excitation, the Δ (1232 ) -resonance, and discuss the link of the nucleon-to- Δ form factors to generalized parton distributions (GPDs).

TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of these atomic systems consists of fitting density-dependent optical potentials V opt = t ( ρ ) ρ to comprehensive sets of data of strong-interaction level shifts, widths and yields across the periodic table.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the possible sources for r-process nuclei (r-nuclei) is presented, which is known that there is as yet no self-consistent mechanism to provide abundant neutrons for a robust R-process in the neutrino-driven winds from nascent neutron stars.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the properties of BPS, or supersymmetric, magnetic monopoles, with an emphasis on their low-energy dynamics and their classical and quantum bound states.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of dislocation patterns observed in different deformation conditions along with the recent advances in modeling using borrowed techniques traditionally used in condensed matter physics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of magnetic fields on the expansion dynamics and the growth of density inhomogeneities in a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that as the Weissenberg number increases, visco-elastic fluids exhibit flow instabilities driven by the anisotropy of the normal stress components and the curvature of the streamlines.

TL;DR: In this article, the experimental techniques as well as the theoretical developments are reviewed, and a summary of results is given, and the experimental results are presented in a high-energy regime that is otherwise almost inaccessible.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dynamical coupled-channel model is presented for investigating the nucleon resonances (N * ) in the meson production reactions induced by pions and photons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize their body of work in the past few years and place their conclusions and current understanding in the framework of other work in this area of astrophysical research.